James Dashner Quotes

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

He will punish you as a father punishes his disobedient child, unless you do as he desires.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Those who can, must obey.

[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke)

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

My mom always used to say, "You'll be a better kid if you just listen."

Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He grinned sheepishly. "That's ridiculous!" murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch." And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee.

Rules are my very humble, obedient servants.

My duty is to obey orders.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

The first great law is to obey.

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

Never mind what I told you - you do as I tell you.

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

If you set the example you will not have to set the rules.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?